New Research

Frogs released into man-made habitats may not breed as successfully as their wild counterparts because of disease and lower food availability, according to a recently published PLOS ONE study. These findings could help improve strategies to counter the impact of…

An endangered fish in Southern California may be even more at-risk than was thought. Called the tidewater goby, this small fish lives in lagoons along the California coast and is threatened by coastal development, habitat loss and drought. Now, new…

As a human, if you lose a limb, you’re unable to grow a new one. However, a number of species including amphibians and fish have the remarkable ability to regenerate fully functional appendages after loss, forming new tissue including bone,…

The heavy rains and tropical cyclones of La Niña and the warmer sea surface temperatures of El Niño can diminish the seagrass beds where dugongs forage, which may impact the birth and survival of calves in the Great Barrier Reef…

When Masayuki Hayashi and colleagues from Chiba University and National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Japan, bred wild-caught Japanese green lacewings in the lab, they were surprised to find that the vast majority of hatched insects were female. Instead of the…

Bright, shiny spots dotting the Sahara Desert may look like particularly reflective grains of sand, but they are actually ants that have adapted to harsh desert temperatures by growing special reflective hairs on their backs. According to a new PLOS ONE…